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I finally got around to reading the first three issues of "Battle of the Atom." I'll probably get around to the other two tomorrow.

I'm actually enjoying it a lot so far, I always love it when the comics put forth an event that sounds so ridiculous to an outsider. The first chance I get I'm going to explain the premise of this event to a friend of mine just so I can see him roll his eyes and say how awful it sounds

Twenty teen heroes trapped on an island by Arcade until they kill each other.

After 15 issues, Half of them are brutally dead.

Kid Briton was young Brian "Captain Britain" Braddock from an alternate dimension trapped on Earth 616 (or visiting?) enrolled at the Braddock Academy where he was dating a Sociopath and sleeping with a hot blue Atlantean mistress coed.

I have no idea what I've just read. This story is rolling out its revelations at a stupidly lethargic pace.

The problem is that the story is playing its cards very close to its vest about the future X-Men, so we don't understand who they are or what their motivations are. This makes it difficult to understand what's going on, what the stakes are, or why we should care. So, what we have is a bunch of people we know fighting a bunch of other people we sort of maybe know over something we don't know at all.

I generally like Brian Wood as a writer (see Northlanders), but this issue was a confusing and frustrating mess.

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